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" It really has stayed practically the same. It wasn't like I used to do wild punk make-up: no, I always had the same vision. "
Francois Nars
Same
Vision
Wild
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" I'm not so interested in perfect, plastic beauty, and I think it translates in the girls I've shot over the years for Nars, from Guinevere to Iris to Mariacarla. I love those girls. I love the more interesting faces, with maybe a strange nose, not just the Texan blonde. By picking those girls, I think it's changed what I've seen in other campaigns. "
Francois Nars
Love
Beauty
Blonde
" I'm always scared of trends. The runways are always so trend-oriented, but I always feel for the women. The real women that buy cosmetics want to see the trends, but they don't necessarily go for them. And I always encourage women to find what looks best on them. "
Francois Nars
Want
Women
Find
" It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow. "
Francois Nars
Personality
Nature
Night
" I think everyone deserves to look better and to look good. "
Francois Nars
Good
Better
Look
" It's one thing to read about how makeup is applied. It's another thing altogether to watch it being put on. "
Francois Nars
How
Watch
One Thing
" I chose makeup over photography because there was something very sensual about makeup that I loved. But photography was always in the back of my mind. That was always something that I was very connected with: looking at magazines, enjoying photography, and then taking pictures myself when I was a kid. "
Francois Nars
Loved
Makeup
Looking
" I was a very lucky child because at the age of 16, 17 years old, my parents would buy me clothes from Yves Saint Laurent, which was an incredible luxury at the time, but I was attracted to that whole world. I had a pretty nice little wardrobe by the age of 17. "
Francois Nars
Time
Me
Child
" My mother never wore much make-up, and she was a kind of natural beauty; she knew just how to enhance what she had. "
Francois Nars
Beauty
How
Mother
" My interpretation of the word 'ugly'... I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase 'jolie laide.' We like certain women who are not pretty or cute - it's the opposite in France of pretty. It's more strange and interesting. "
Francois Nars
Beauty
Cute
Interesting
" I don't think there's a major change between runway and real life anymore. "
Francois Nars
Life
Real
Real Life
" I love strong looks, so to me, no makeup is strong. As long as it makes a statement, that's what I like. The girls look very real, and I'm probably the only makeup artist who will say that I love a woman without makeup. "
Francois Nars
Strong
Woman
Long
" From the start, I used a different kind of girl in Nars campaign images. My choice to use models of colour such as Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell and Karen Park Goude was absolutely a deliberate one. I felt that makeup was universal and should apply to everybody. "
Francois Nars
Park
Start
Makeup
" I think Edie Sedgwick comes back, too. Every five or six years, there is always something about Edie, because she was so modern and stylish and elegant and hippie-ish, all at the same time. So I think that people will always love her. "
Francois Nars
She
Stylish
Time
" Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don't need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes! "
Francois Nars
Life
Eyes
Simple
" My vision was to create makeup that was more transparent but with formulas that last. I follow my instincts - it's all very spontaneous! "
Francois Nars
Create
Makeup
Vision
" Wearing colourful eyeliner in a graphic shape is the epitome of make-up as an accessory. "
Francois Nars
Graphic
Epitome
Shape
" Being a studio make-up artist and working on magazines was the only thing I wanted to do. "
Francois Nars
Only
Magazines
Artist
" I made contours and all that, but in real life, you have to be very careful with that because you can go out in the street and look terrible. All those girls who show how to do contour, they do it quite well, but they're like makeup artists. They're in artificial light. "
Francois Nars
You
Street
Makeup
" You can look glamorous even if you're a housewife, any job you have. "
Francois Nars
You
Job
Glamorous
" I never stop thinking about names of products. It's a process that happens 24 hours a day. "
Francois Nars
Thinking
Day
Never Stop
" Women are being more experimental with eye color. "
Francois Nars
Color
More
Women
" I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows! "
Francois Nars
Knowing
People
You
" Women are very unpredictable. "
Francois Nars
Women
Very
Women Are
" I like shocking, but I don't like to shock as an automatic process. Sometimes it happens, but it's not my main drive. "
Francois Nars
Sometimes
Process
Drive
" It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me. "
Francois Nars
Vulgarity
Shock
Shocked
" I think it's important that you know every detail when you open a store, that you pay attention to everything. "
Francois Nars
Pay
You
Detail
" The '80s and '90s were the greatest time to be a makeup artist. "
Francois Nars
Time
Were
Makeup
" I love the dramatic idea of having nothing on. "
Francois Nars
Love
Idea
Having
" I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. "
Francois Nars
More
Architecture
End
" We are not afraid to be a bit different, to make shades that are bold. "
Francois Nars
Different
Bold
Shades